Example sentences of "[pron] sits [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 2 | The FM part refers to the flame maple veneer , which sits atop a four-piece alder body with a Transparent Red ( you guessed it ) finish . |
| 3 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 4 | For 22 years , North Down has been the personal bailliwick of James Kilfedder , the former speaker of the ill-starred Northern Ireland Assembly and an independent Unionist who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons but without the party whip . |
| 5 | Amer Midani , the wealthy Lebanese businessman who sits on the United board , is still favourite to eventually take over the club , and to install Bobby Charlton as chairman . |
| 6 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |
| 7 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 8 | The kind who sits in a little island in the middle of a highly polished marble floor , looking gorgeous and untouchable , but … ’ |
| 9 | She sits on the only chair in the room , by the night table . |
| 10 | She sits in a soft curve at her easel , gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky . |
| 11 | 4 As soon as s/he sits in the hot seat , this person must become the chosen character . |
| 12 | Our faces are ventral , the back of our heads are dorsal ; one sits on the dorsal surface of a horse . |
| 13 | He takes his time strolling over , and when he gets here he sits at the far end of the bench like he does n't know me . |
| 14 | He sits on a low wall and waits . |
| 15 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 16 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 17 | Looking to the future , this conflict should cease to arise ; race-awareness training is now integrated into basic training , where it sits as a natural part of discussions on impartiality and prejudice during the interviewing process and should have the benefits that CAB anti-racist policy intends . |
| 18 | Like the linker , it sits on the main bed and has a cog wheel and spring at the rear to lock it on to the needlebed . |
| 19 | Nuln is the second biggest city of the Reikland and like Altdorf it sits astride the great river Reik . |
| 20 | I leap off my spot and down into the cabin where it sits in a predominant place . |